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OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company

Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.

US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals

CISA said it "missed" an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time.

Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn

Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation. 

No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance

On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and work with law enforcement agencies, and this letter kicked off yet another wave […]

Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief/2026/07/11/b240d63f-2768-43dd-89b6-2bdceb6df745

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Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. […]

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."

The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban

Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise. They're just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States' foreign drone ban. But it appears the FCC is […]

Microsoft Reports a Massive 25 Percent Jump in Emissions

Data centers are driving up the company’s use of electricity—and carbon pollution.

Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.